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Hopefully this time, someone will stop this madness. How can someone patent something so abstract? And embeddable objects (OLE 1.0 anyone?!) have been in exist

by volida 17y ago

Hopefully this time, someone will stop this madness. How can someone patent something so abstract? And embeddable objects (OLE 1.0 anyone?!) have been in existence since 1990. How come it defers if they were embedded through an interpreted or a compiled application? Visual Basic was interpreted anyhow long before JavaScript or ActionScript.

robryan 17y ago
Very dumb patent to give, Maybe at the time this was a fairly unique idea, but now it's common place for many many websites. Hopefully taking action against so many companies will indicate to the courts how broad and obvious this idea they have patented is.
- scotty79 17y ago
  > Maybe at the time this was a fairly unique idea, but now it's common place for many many websites. It would not be if Eolas could help it!
- volida 17y ago
  Funny because of what I remember Java applets were running inside the browser in 1995.